Ukraine to get EUR 366bn over next seven years from EU budget, says the Orbán cabinet
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Ukraine will get 366 billion euros from the next seven-year budget of the European Union according to the calculations of Hungary’s government, that is to say every fifth euro paid into the budget by European taxpayers will end up, directly or indirectly, in Ukraine, János Bóka, the EU affairs minister, said on public radio Sunday morning.
Ukraine to get EUR 366bn
On the EUR 2,000 billion EU budget framework, Bóka said a 100 billion euro fund is earmarked as direct support for Ukraine, but the country will also benefit from the EU’s defence industry spending, the European Peace Facility, weapons purchase funds as well as the Erasmus, Horizon and cross-border cooperation programmes, he said.
It is unprecedented that budgetary planning in the European Union should focus not on member states or European citizens but the interests of an “external entity,” the minister said.
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According to the Commission’s plans, the common agricultural policy fund and the cohesion funds would be replaced by uniform national plans, which would include agricultural funds and cohesion funds as well as home affairs funds, Bóka said.